California-based SSC Construction is building a 50 million-gallon reservoir in Powell Butte Nature Park for the Portland Water Bureau. The $81 million project is part of a larger $137 project fulfilling a master plan for the site, which is home ...

Portland City Council this week authorized a maximum price of $31.5 million for a construction manager/general contractor contract with Advanced American Construction Inc. to modify a tower in Bull Run Reservoir 2. The project will help the Portland Water Bureau keep the Bull Run River cool, to meet federal Clean Water Act requirements the city agreed to in 2009.

For an upcoming pipe replacement project around Southwest Naito Parkway in downtown, Moore Excavation will confront one big obstacle: a road tunnel hidden since the 1960s. After weeks of research and preparation, crews will start work this week.

There’s a lull in construction on Powell Butte, but things should pick up again soon. The Water Bureau’s largest construction project – for a few years, anyway – is the addition of a new 50 million-gallon reservoir in Powell Butte Nature Park. The next phase, which will be completed by Corona, Calif.-based contractor SSC Construction, will kick off later this month.

The city of Portland's 100-plus-year-old system of water pipes turned into a problem child this morning when a section near Northeast 67th Avenue broke, spilling water into the streets and filling the basements of several houses in the area.